Every time we talk, we talk for hours and it still isn't enough. It really made me think about the friends I have and the friend that I am. Being a grown up is hard sometimes when life changes and you move and your friends aren't just around the corner anymore. There are times when it's lucky if you talk to them once a month.
Today I received a letter from another dear friend of mine, we met in 2007 and I wasn't exactly fond of her when we first met. She was my Young Woman's President at church when I was a Laurel, in that transition phase from YW to YSA. I moved to Toowoomba for uni not long after I met her. Only a few months later she moved to Toowoomba as well, just around the corner from me! It was so nice to see a familiar face! So I became part of their family. I know Heavenly Father sent her to me because he knew I needed someone to watch over me. She definitely became a a big sister to me. She loved me unconditionally and patiently through all of my stupid choices. She always had faith in me which helped when I had no faith in myself. An true example of being a woman of faith and humility, always calling upon The Lord and trusting in him.
Another special lady in my life I met in my first year of high school. We used to spend every moment we could spare with each other, countless sleepovers and shopping trips! A year or so after graduation we lost contact but got in touch again this year and I met up with her for dinner and we picked up right where we left off. I love her! And I love her family! Yet another family I adopted myself into.
Now, before I married my sweet Nicholas I had another "husband" she was my roommate for two whole years. We sure had lots of fun in our curry marinated share house. And even though we had our own rooms I remember a number of sleepovers In each other's rooms. We've had many adventures together and she has been able to come up to Rockhmapton a number of times to visit me. I am so grateful for her in my life! She is such a beautiful friend and has a special place in my heart.
We all have that one friend who is exactly like you, who thinks like you, jokes like you, enjoys the sepame music as you. Well this next sweet lady is definitely my twin! We bonded over a church dance festival, she was choreographing the dance and I was the lead dancer. I would walk to her place everyday after school and that would turn into dinners and sleepovers. Boy did we get up to some mischief! She is married to my ex boyfriend's brother, it's great lol she lives up north on a little island where her husband works as a teacher. We don't talk as regularly as we use to or even as I'd like to but life just gets busy like that, when we do get a chance to talk though nothing has changed and I love her for that and miss her!
I met this next lovely lady in the bathroom at church, she was having a rough day and we got to talking and started to bond right then. Within a few hours of knowing her we drove from Toowoomba yo Brisbane together, we laughed and cried the whole way there sharing lots of personal stories. We became great friends especially when she married one of my others rinds and moved to Toowoomba. She still lives there with 2 kids now and a live, what feels like a lifetime away in Rockhampton. She is one of the sweetest women I know!
When I was going through the a really hard this woman was also suffering and I remember going over to her house one day after I had heard the news, we sat on her couch crying together. She was such a strength to me in that time, if she could get through what she was going through I knew I could too. We spent lots of time together after that lots of dinners at her place and sleepovers. I was there so often I became a part of their family for a while. We both came out the end of that time stronger women. She is now engaged to a wonderful man! A testament to women everywhere that The Lord never forgets us, He is always aware of us.
The last friend I'm going to talk about I met at uni, we bumped heads a little when we first met but it only took a few months for us to get on like a house on fire. We have a similar sort of humour and both as messy as each other. We lives together in our fourth year of uni, in a quaint unit just across the road from the uni. That was a great year, I had a car for the first time, living in a nice place for the first time having my friends close by. We are both music teachers now, she's up north in Cairns. Every now and again we'll share some funny stories with each other, other stories are unbelievable and even frustrating.
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